• IPA: /ˈkælkjʊleɪt/, /ˈkælkjəleɪt/

calculate (calculates, present participle calculating; past and past participle calculated)

1. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

   Calculate the square root of 3 to 10 decimal places.

2. (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
3. (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
4. To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

     A cunning man did calculate my birth.

   to calculate or cast one's nativity

5. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.

   • [Religion] is […] calculated for our benefit.

   to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people

• (determine value of or solution to) compute, reckon (old), work out
• (determine values or solutions) compute, reckon (old)

• calculation
• calculus
• calculator
• incalculable

• French: calculer
• German: kalkulieren, berechnen, ausrechnen
• Italian: calcolare
• Portuguese: calcular
• Russian: вычисля́ть
• Spanish: calcular

• French: calculer
• German: rechnen
• Italian: calcolare
• Portuguese: calcular
• Spanish: calcular

• German: kalkulieren, sich etwas ausrechnen
• Spanish: (transitive) calcular